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While visiting Newark Park, Gloucestershire, UK this Peacock jumped up onto a stone pillar and gave me ample opportunity to enjoy its extravagant beauty......(and to use my Tamron telephoto lens).....never seen one this close before.....such a striking and gloriously colourful bird.....
'Thus when Philomela drooping softly seeks her silent mate, see the bird of Juno stooping; Melody resigns to fate.' (1733)
Link to the whole poem:-
books.google.co.uk/books?id=xw9MAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA155&...
Handheld, Pentax K3 II paired with a Tamron AF 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di LD Macro 1:2, standard run through in DxO Optics Pro on Mac, then cropped, rotated and tweaked in Snapseed and 'Photos' on iPad Pro.
For more info.on the Indian peafowl or blue peafowl (Pavo cristatus):-
Numbers 2:18-24 Exodus 28:19
In the New Covenant
Revelation 7:4-8 Revelation 21:19,20
(The Wolf Stone)
Genesis 49:27 'Benjamin is a ravenous wolf'
The placing of the stones in the breastplate is in the order of the camp. 4 rows of 3 for east south west and north
West- Benjamin Manasseh Ephraim- from right to left.
By birth Issachar was 9th, but by camp Benjamin was 9th
The family order was on the 2 shoulder Onyx stones Exodus 28:9,10
The camp order was on the Breastplate
Exodus 28:15-21
Read Numbers chapters 1&2
A video my son Kyle made and dedicated it to his sister
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWvxeQpLdi0
The tribe of Benjamin
Sometimes, I feel so tired...and so discouraged...that I wish I could pull a Rip Van Winkle...and fall asleep for 100 years...and wake up later to see how it all turned out. And I wouldn't even care how long my beard grew while I slept. Just so long as my sleep was uninterrupted.
~~Sheree~~
“When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.” (Luigi PIRANDELLO)
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Second Life - Mirai
Thought I'd put this one up of Prince Charlie's Cave which sits amongst those big boulders just to the left of Paddys head. It's quite large inside and has it's own water supply. He holed up here for 3 days whilst on the run from Culloden with the Seven brave men of Moriston. It's quite a walk in .. about 2/3 hrs, after this we toddled up onto the ridge above and took in the tops and munros. books.google.co.uk/books?id=_b1rBuQgG0IC&pg=PT153&...
"Stirred But Not Shaken: The Autobiography." Keith Floyd, 2009
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Nikon D3+Nikkor 24mm ƒ/2.8 AI
© Ivan Herrador
It was snowing and roads were snow packed when I spotted this Italianate building in the small community of Ravalli in Lake County, Montana. Because of the snow, it was tough to find a spot to pull far enough off the road to take a photo. Built in 1913, this one room school housed students from grades one to eight. The enrollment averaged 31 students a year for the 9 years the building served as a school. When Lake County was formed in 1922, the school closed and students attended a school in nearby St. Ignatius. From 1922 to 1935 the building served as a polling place and informal community center. In 1935 the Ravalli Community Club bought the building and it serves as a community center. The hillside in the background was tree covered and looked beautiful in the snow.
Reference: F 5-1(9)6, US Highway 93 Transportation Project, Evaro to Polson, Missoula and Lake Counties Montana, Draft Environment Impact Sudy, 1995, 12.3.2.
Tag 349/365 Herr Geibel denkt und dichtet scheinbar immer noch
Im Hintergrund das Heilig-Geist-Hospital (die Scheiben sind leider tlw beschlagen und dadurch unscharf)
der mai ist gekommen ist von ihm u.a. das ich auch nicht kenne
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Se puede encontrar una interesante relación de las obras de este dominico en la Biblioteca Valenciana de los escritores que florecieron hasta nuestros días (José Ximeno, 1827), que se puede consultar en Google Books:
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Interesante es, también, el Elogio Fúnebre pronunciado en su memoria, que podemos consultar en
This is the second in a series of photos of the "Stanley" family, taken November 01, 1903 at a gypsy encampment in Corey Hill Park, Brookline, Massachusetts by Thomas E. Marr, of Tremont Street in Boston. This is one of a set of silver gelatin prints I bought about 40 years ago at a flea market. The seller had a table covered with boxes filled with carefully organized, original T. E. Marr 7.5 x 9.5 inch silver gelatin prints. If I had the money I'd have bought the whole load, and more if he had any. In looking through the lot I discovered a dozen gypsy encampment photos, sequentially numbered by Mr. Marr. I asked if there were more gypsy prints and he said that those were all that were in the huge collection. I bought all twelve. Mr. Marr must have spent an entire day roaming through the encampment carefully selecting subjects to photograph. The shots look carefully composed, with the various figures positioned almost as if done in a studio. Here's a link to a short publication (19 pages) regarding Gypsies in America, available on Google Books. The information it contains is really interesting, some dealing with gypsies in the greater Boston area:
books.google.com/books?id=L0UKAAAAIAAJ&printsec=front...
The vardo in this image is about the most basic there is... being simply a covered wagon with a drop-front canvas screen. Smaller side panels are fastened with snaps and can be rolled up for increased ventilation.
Here the matriarch of the clan is flashing what is probably her best attempt at a smile for the "dinlow" behind the camera.
T E Marr-No 8924
"An ideal person takes joy in doing favours for others,
But never expect gratitude from the others.
You should give only for the inner joy of giving,
Then you will start feeling a strange happy living."
- Peace of Mind by Hari Dutt Sharma
Octan Energy's entry into the Wipeout series of races was a fast and feisty handful for its pilots. Built for speed, it was equipped with two massive engines from Whatt & Pritney. Much of the underside of its nose was given to heat exchanger pipes. This cooling array boosted the power of the engines considerably. If the designers had paid as much attention to the steering it might have been a successful racer.
"Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow."
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This ship was inspired by images that I've seen of the Wipeout computer games. I've never played them, so I might have got some wrong ideas!
Fly found by the compost bin (Ipswich, TM166450) on 21 Feb 2016. Identified as a female Tephrochlamys rufiventris using the Gorodkov key to Heleomyzids in Keys to Insects of the European Part of the USSR. ID confirmed by Heleomyzid expert Andrzej Woznica. When I googled this species I found my own photo from 2014 that had been identified as "probably Tephrochlamys rufiventris"!
5075-1 . 90ºcw; white-point adjust . 20230616
“Instead of a body of work I have an index-card habit.”
— Sam Savage, The Way of the Dog (2013) : 31
I managed to capture this beautiful flag in the February breeze last weekend at Old Washington. The occasion was "Frontier Days at the Hill of the Five Trails." It is a small get-together of reenactors demonstrating life in the 19th century in early Arkansas.
Old Washington is on a hill where four Indian trails intersected with the old Southwest Trail near Fulton at the crossing of the Red River. It was well established by 1822 as "Ebenezer Campground" and administered by the reverend William Stevenson who came to be known as the Father of Methodism in Arkansas. Stephen F. Austin and his brother-in-law, James Bryan were among the first landowners as they set up a supply depot to serve nearby Fulton's Landing. ¹
This flag probably never flew over Old Washington in the 1800s. In fact, the Betsy Ross Flag was never an official United States Flag.²
By 1822 the official U.S. Flag had 24 stars. It remained as such for 14 years, somewhat of a record at the time, until 1836 when the 25th star was added to represent the new state of Arkansas.
¹ books.google.com/books?id=AHEae3j2xusC&pg=PA4&lpg... "Hill of the five trails"
This quintessential Victorian mansion in McAlester, OK, known as the McGinnity House, is undergoing a complete restoration -- can't wait to see what it looks like when it's finished.
Joe McGinnity was a major league baseball player at the turn of the 20th century and was electected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946. Here's more information about him:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_McGinnity
And a little about this house here:
books.google.com/books?id=QR2x2OMD6AcC&pg=PA49&lp... mcginnity house&f=false
Neighborhood, Lincoln Square. Building was built in 1912. In 1928 the bottom floor was White Beauty Electric Co. In 1928 residents who lived there were Victor & Selma Miller, Hagbert & Doris Miller and John & Florence Hunter. This could possibly be Hagbert Miller who lived here. books.google.com/books?id=NdoGAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA419&l...
Bradford, PA
Wonderful old Coca-Cola ghost sign -- I sure wish I'd had a ladder though! Or, be a lot taller lol
I found mention of Neely's Drug Store online in a 1910 publication, Modern Pharmacy. According to what I read, Mr. Neely had great success selling Lactone Buttermilk at the soda fountain in his store.
Utah 5006 sits in Goodland Kansas underneath the Patrick Burns Memorial Trees. On Oct 10th 1922 the Rock Island celebrated their 70th anniversary and in doing so planted seventy trees at various locations across the system. Each tree was to honor a former or deceased employee that helped develop the Rock Island to where it was. The trees were also given a bronze plaque with the employees name. The tree in Goodland Kansas was dedicated to Patrick Burns, a Section Forman and father of Vice President W. H. Burns. Today the tree is healthy and sits about 100 feet east of the Goodland Kansas Depot and the Kyle Railroad operates the line.
back cover (detail, 90ºcw; auto tone)
Documents of the State of New York, 95th session, 1872. Vol. 3. (Albany, 1872)
(UC Berkeley copy)
20211107
Some interesting background on the right-seater in this photo, Mr. Murphy: books.google.com/books?id=UECKO451kAwC&pg=PA93&lp...
Basel, 14. März 2022
Rote-Liste-Kategorie (D): Ungefährdet
Aktuelle Bestandssituation: Mäßig häufig
Langfristiger Bestandstrend: Deutliche Zunahme
insektentrainer.nabu.de/insekt/rote-mauerbiene/
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www.wildbienen.info/steckbriefe/osmia_cornuta.php
www.wildbienen.info/biologie/solitaere_bienen.php
mauerbienenforum.de/gehoernte-mauerbiene-osmia-cornuta/
The Biology of European Orchard Bee Osmia cornuta
endpaper, detail (levels 20 1.00 255)
Bijdragen tot de Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch Indië, vol. 3 (Amsterdam, 1859)
Stanford copy/scan (via google books) : link
here because this volume contains an instance of kalkzeep (lime soap, soap scum), being a term admitted in the New Official Vocabulary for Telegrams in Preconcerted Language vol 2 (Berne, 1900) : 1487 : link.
and recalling long-ago times asjik tenggelam in Bijdragen dan hikayat, sjair dan silsilah; and
Kalkzeep / There is a perfect understanding :
Telegraphic clarity and Gertrude Stein’s writing “clear as mud,”
presented at NEMLA (Boston, March 2003)
and too suggesting loess, dust storm, aeolian transport and deposition
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4881 . morning-after (there is no right) light . 20230507
the note is to something encountered in Coast Banker and California Banker 21:5 (San Francisco, October 1918) : 326
Handyfoto: MM
Bearbeitet: pm
Sonntagswanderung von MM am 7. August 2016.
Aussicht von der Dossenhütte.
Von Rosenlaui, 1327 m ü.M. (am Pass "Grosse Scheidegg" zwischen Meiringen und Grindelwald) durch die Rosenlauischlucht zur Dossenhütte (2663 m ü.M.)
Built in 1889 blending the Italianate and Eastlake styles. The home is located at the corner of Upperline St. in the Uptown neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana 70115
In 1928 this corner was Ahlborn Drugs ran by Frank Ahlborn. books.google.com/books?id=BBgVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA495&l...
I know I've posted a shot of this before , because this 1956 model is one of the nicer cameras ever made at the Argus Camera company, pride of my hometown. The styling does seem a little unsettled, with the body harkening back to the 1940s and the lens looking forward towards the 1960s.
A couple of additional details, though:
I've learned that the formula for the 4-element Tessar-type lens was computed using "MIDAC," one of the earliest digital computers ever built in the midwest, and operated by the University of Michigan (this is reported on pg. 16 and 18 of the Sept. 1956 Popular Photography).
The designation "high-index, rare-earth crown glass" can be a bit of a red flag, namely that it might contain radioactive thorium in the melt. I don't have any information about that, but closely examining the Cintagon it does seem to show a trace of "browning" of the kind you sometimes see in radioactive glass.
It can be unclear whether you should style this camera's model designation as C44 or C-Forty-Four (or all in lowercase) or C-44. But our local library has scanned many issues of the Argus in-house newsletter and put them online; and these seem pretty consistent in printing it as "C-44" (with the hyphen).
Although the sound is a little funky, you might enjoy this 27-minute industrial film about how Argus cameras were made.
From what I looked up on this building along with the name Appelholm I think it was a former bakery owned by Gunnar Appelholm. 1228 Broadway, Rockford Illinois books.google.com/books?id=GBpEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA981&l...
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Happy Caturday my Flickr Friends 😊😊😍
odyssey
www.theodysseyonline.com/3-commonly-misquoted-sayings
A Dictionary of Catch Phrases - Page 518 - Google Books Result
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Built in 1889 blending the Italianate and Eastlake styles. The home is located at the corner of Upperline St. (next to 4901) in the Uptown neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana 70115
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mistakes in the making of the thing, dead ends. What was supposed to develop, but for some reason didn't; or vice versa
— Olga Tokarczuk, Flights (Jennifer Croft, trans., 2017) : 17
Ignorance is a terrible thing, I have never heard of Meelin and I know absolutely nothing about the subject matter of the above description. The big benefit of this job is that within a few hours I will know all there is to know about it! Thanking you in advance.
Thanks to O Mac for the location and street view. There is no doubt that these so called "official reprisals" were a reality and were sanctioned at the highest level of command.
beachcomberaustralia and DannyM8 together managed to identify the most probable date for this photo and the link to the chapter 7 of Sean Moylan - Rebel Leader on Google Books is a must read for anyone with an interest in the Meelin story.
Photographer: W. D. Hogan
Collection: Hogan Wilson Collection
Date: Most likely 5th January 1921
NLI Ref.: HOG156
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Autumn Equinox 2016
English Heritage keep history buried under their new commercial visitors centre. What price heritage ? A 22 holed 30m diameter circle lies beneath at its northern edge.
22 holes indicates a stone circle may have been there which like others of its size could act as a calendar and mark the movements of son and moon. Looks like they do not want us to know about this .Don't you think there may have been a few objections to the visitor centre if they had not buried our heritage in secret. No conspiracy theory here just a simple agreement of silence perhaps to keep the tourist bucks flowing in without any hold ups in construction.
Exploring the Greatest Stone Age Mystery by Mike Parker Pearson Page 263
.https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bBclCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA263&dq=%E2%80%98Because+this+was+a+commercial+operation+(for+clients+of+English+Heritage),+the+results+were+confidential+and+the+find+couldn%E2%80%99t+be+revealed+to+the+public%E2%80%99&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi62oXTysLRAhWKCsAKHTaWBS0Q6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%98Because%20this%20was%20a%20commercial%20operation%20(for%20clients%20of%20English%20Heritage)%2C%20the%20results%20were%20confidential%20and%20the%20find%20couldn%E2%80%99t%20be%20revealed%20to%20the%20public%E2%80%99&f=false
Westbound power sits tied down outside of the Goodland Kansas depot on a clear summer night. The dimmed headlight illuminates Kyle 2128 sitting in the fuel track. A crew has just begun its tour of duty and is busy job briefing, verifying paperwork and orders inside the depot. In a little they will untie the train and head west after some yard work in town. Another thing worth noting is the tree next to the depot. On Oct 10th 1922 the Rock Island celebrated their 70th anniversary and in doing so planted seventy trees at various locations across the system. Each tree was to honor a former or deceased employee that helped develop the Rock Island to where it was. The trees were also given a bronze plaque with the employees name. The tree in Goodland Kansas was dedicated to Patrick Burns, a Section Forman and father of Vice President W. H. Burns.
Fodor's California Wine Country guide describes Husch Winery in Philo as the oldest winery in the Anderson Valley with a "zesty estate-grown gewurztraminer" that "is about as good as it gets," and a pinot noir that "demonstrates that elusive aroma and flavor characteristic of the best wines made from this varietal."
The setting? "[A] converted late-19th-century barn, with a rusted antique car in the yard and picnic tables spread out under the trees [that] makes a tasting feel particularly down-home."
Comment fonctionne un four à goémon ?
L’incinération des laminaires sèchées s’effectue vers le début de l’automne, en plein air, à proximité des lieux de récolte, dans des fours de type assez primitif. Un four est une rigole de 10 à 15 mètres de long et de 60 centimètres de large pour 40 centimètres de profondeur environ. Des dalles de pierre tapissent le fond et les parois de la fosse. Le feu y est allumé avec des genêts et des ajoncs.
Quand le four est chaud, on répartit les laminaires sèches en couches minces et le feu s’entretient ainsi, en partie étouffé en rajoutant de temps à autre du goémon frais. La température atteint 800°. Peu à peu se forme une bouillie grise que l’on doit remuer avec de gros bâtons ferrés. Dans cet état pâteux, on sépare la masse en blocs de 50 centimètres environ avec des laminaires fraîches. On obtient ainsi lors du refroidissement, des blocs ou ‘pains’ de soude.
Cinq à six tonnes de goémon frais donnent une tonne de goémon sec avec lequel on prépare environ 200 kg de soude, et plus tard près de 10 kilos d’iode...
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Une industrie chimique en Bretagne
La Bretagne, n’est pas particulièrement réputée pour son industrie chimique. Pourtant, depuis les premières décennies du 18e siècle, c’est à dire depuis le début de la chimie "moderne", une activité chimique y est menée, sans interruption, autour des algues. (Voir)
L’industrie de la "soude" (carbonate de sodium) se développe d’abord. On extrait ce produit des cendres de goémons séchés. Il est indispensable à la fabrication du verre. Cette activité s’arrête à la fin du 18e siècle quand de nouveaux procédés sont découverts.
Elle reprend en 1829 après que le chimiste Bernard Courtois ait découvert, en 1812, un nouveau et utile produit dans les cendres d’algues : l’iode. L’iode est utilisée, en particulier, en photographie et en médecine. Sa production en Bretagne s’arrête en 1952 à cause de la concurrence de l’iode extrait des nitrates du Chili.
Aujourd’hui le relais est pris par l’extraction des alginates contenus dans les grandes laminaires. En 1883 Edward Stanford isole l’algine des algues, plus tard le norvégien Axel Kefting en extrait l’acide alginique. La production à grande échelle commence en 1930. La Bretagne en produit environ 2000 tonnes dans les usines de Lannilis et Landerneau. Les alginates sont des agents épaississants et stabilisateurs qui interviennent aussi bien dans l’industrie pharmaceutique que dans l’industrie alimentaire ou celle du papier, des colorants ou des produits de moulage.
Plus confidentiels mais tout aussi riches d’intérêt sont les usages alimentaires, pharmaceutiques et cosmétiques des algues.De nombreux laboratoires, dans le Finistère, travaillent dans ces domaines pour des produits " haut de gamme " souvent destinés à l’exportation.
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A chemical industry in Brittany, in the past and today
Northern Finistère, in Brittany, is not really welknown for its chemical industry. Yet, since the 17th century, that is to say when chemistry started to develop, a chemical industry was carried out, non stop, around seaweed.
In the past
The industry of « soda » (sodium carbonate) first developed. This product is extracted from ashes of dried seaweed. It is necessary to make glass and soap. That activity came to an end at the end of the 18th century when new ways were discovered.
It resumed in 1829 after Bernard Courtois, the chemist, had discovered in 1812 a new an useful product in seaweed ashes : iode. It is mainly used in photo-making and medecine. Its production in Brittany stopped in 1952, because of the competition of iodine, extracted from nitrates in Chili.
Today
Today, the extraction of alginates contained in big laminaria has taken over. In 1883, Edward Stanford isolated the algine of seaweed, later Axel Kefting, a Norvegian, extracted algine acid. Its production on a large scale started in 1930. Brittany produces about 2000 tons in its factories in Lannilis and Landerneau. Alginates are thickening and stabilying agents, that are used both in the pharmaceutical industry and food industry, or in that of paper, colouring or moulding products.
The use of seaweed in food, pharmacy or cosmetics is less known., though worthy of interest. Many laboratories in Finistere work in that field for « top quality » products, often meant for export.
The burning of seaweed
Each year, the museum of seaweed gatherers, in Plouguerneau, on the Northern coast of Finistère organises the burning of seaweed in its old furnaces so as to get ashes with a large amount of soda. We went on the spot, to extract a « soda loaf », in a compact shape. The hot cinders seem to be melting, and are cast in the cells of the furnace, while they are cooling.
The mechanical processing of the ashes :
We first roughly broke the « soda loaf » with a hammer. We, then, crushed the ashes in a mortar with a pestel. Then, we sifted them, to obtain a thin powder.
The washing of the ashes
We left to boil 20g of the ashes in 100 cm3 of water for about 5 min. We filtered it. A solid deposit of about 9g was left (weighed after drying). The solution contains soluble substances, mainly carbonate and iodur ions.
Sarcophagus of a Husband and Wife, with Hymenaios, the Spirit of Marriage
Glyptothek, look here for a brief guide.
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